Dunno Pat.

It's like - on one side, anybody can say Jolo is sh'it. But on the other side everyone knows he puts in a shift even when he is playing rubbish. I've always seen him take part in build-up play, which is unglamorous and doesn't help his stats. He's clearly got a good attitude and is willing to do what's asked of him. Howe can clearly improve him and has but my crisis in confidence is whether he could ever rise to the level necessary to keep us up.

Same for Shelvey. Slap Head (I can call him that because I too am follicly challenged) has always had talent. But it is caked over with layers of rash actions, laziness, bad decision making, choosing the bad option from his massive repertoire of passes, etc. Howe can fix him. But this is a massive ask and we are going into a dark place now.

The list goes on. Many of these players have +ve attributes but he doesn't have the time to mould them.

We need new, higher quality players for the level of results we will need by January.